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Q: How do you know Xcode 16.2 is a mess?
A: The code it generates for a new project is rejected by the compiler.
You generate a framework project, and besides having to manually sign the damn thing (really, can't setup for success?), it won't compile and link due to some other obscure error IT generates.
/<pathToFramework>/<ProjectName>.framework: resource fork, Finder information, or similar detritus not allowed
Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code
Yes, boys and girls, Xcode is broken right out of the gate on building a framework template it creates!
I'll tell you what is "detritus", it's Xcode. Hint to Xcode team: "Just Say NO" - Nancy Regan10 -
@Lensflare I don‘t need to go to whatever websites that you are linking.
You can‘t experience the state of being dead, by definition.
No amount of drugs or spiritual bullshit will give you an actual experience of being dead, because nobody knows how it is to be dead, because it‘s fucking impossible, again, by definition.
Just because your drug trips give you the feeling of "woah bro, it’s totally like I‘m dead, bro" doesn‘t mean it‘s actually like being dead. Fucking imbecile.37 -
When the inventor of CSS said "Damn I have this great idea..!" somebody should have told him to chill and tell him "no worries, someone else will do, too."6
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Hey rust people
Why not just release a new version of c that automatically deallocates unused variables that are out of scope unless somehow marked to be preserved in a point in ram and their location published in some form of reference table ?
Why were people in the kernel having fake arguments over stupid bs related to being expected to add your new language?51 -
Ever tried opening up x15 IntelliJ IDEA's sessions with all different repos at the same time after 3 months, so all of them would trigger reindexing?
There's the first time for everything I guess...18 -
my luck is terrible
woke up this morning to a blizzard. I love snow though. had to walk middle of the road because the sidewalks had a meter of snow. so fun. tons of people shoveling their cars, interrupts to their day and awkward problem solving (love it!), even saw some people traversing the city in snowshoes... never seen Canadians not magically clear snow instantly!
got my stuff, came home, showered, put coffee on to make, decided I was gonna do a lot of laundry and clean the place. was listening to podcasts, ate cake and coffee, went nuts cleaning the apartment. even did some impromptu gardening because my plants needed some TLC. my muscles were exhausted and it was awesome
... got a new blanket on Valentine's day from the boyfriend. well turns out it's flammable or something. messed up my drying machine. ended up messing up the laundry load and just putting up clothes to dry hanging... lame. tried to fix the blanket best I can wtf.
... but while sweeping and trying to make sure the drying machine was adequately vented out... my phone slipped out of my hoodie pocket and dropped on my toe... and cracked in half
I am in despair now, irrationally
I also feel irrational fear on the matter
the phone works perfectly fine... there's just a crack across. sensors all good, visuals all fine. but noticing the air bubble in the screen protector, the tiny crack in the correct lighting, just makes me feel like such crap
feel so cursed and like everything I touch breaks. my laptop is also broken... a screw fell off the corner. I just feel so cursed. grrrr. and I don't get the irrational fear. now the reminder on my phone screen... this phone slips out of everything, I've had it fall often, but I guess because this time it landed on my toe and not flat on the screen the weight distribution made it crack. probably next time it slips somewhere it will break entirely 😔
just irrationally in fear, grief, whyyy 😭3 -
is there some trendy definition for "keyboard pattern" that im unaware of?
seriously though... while not always current on whatever scammer\phisher\wannabe hackers\etc are doing... im still one hell of a, beyond capable, cyber security pro... mainly cuz I've been networking professionally since half-duplex existed, know, and thoroughly enjoy data architectures, encryption and things like hardware drivers and low level systems down to the literal, physical\mechanical and digital bits...
basically,i have a rare viewpoint in comprehension; I'm used to nonsensical tactics being enforced as if they were actually valid (basically everything other than a min length (~6+) and *don't use basic words found in a pocket dictionary* is typically a double edged sword).
so wtf do they mean? i mean, technically, everything typed can be a keyboard pattern... itd be like how people say "vps" when they are talking about a proxy.23 -
TeamLeader2: Mister IHateForALiving, client is reporting a bug, we need you to check out what is happening
IHateForALiving: I'm on it, anything I should know before I start?
TeamLeader2: just check the logs, they should tell you pretty much everything you need to know
The logs:5 -
Drinking gluhwein 9:00 in the morning on a Wednesday. It's snows outside and I have special snow in my stash. This will be a fun day. Isn't life beautiful?
Edit: oh f, it's Tuesday. As you can see, very relaxed.22 -
Day 17 of starving myself to death challenge.
Yesterday was… different. As I already said multiple times, I do eat from time to time, but yesterday I decided to fast.
By the evening, my body was completely exhausted. Couldn’t really stand on my own without holding onto something.
Then I laid down and got ready for sleep.
Because my body had zero energy, for the first time in 15 years it wasn’t twitching. It twitches all the time: I have restless legs syndrome, but it’s not just legs for me but the whole body. I can’t stress this enough how much I twitch every day. But right then and there, my body was calm.
As my brain was shutting down and falling asleep, I felt euphoria unlike anything I have ever experienced. I was in heaven. Calm body, empty mind.
I want to say it was worth it, and I probably will do it all again someday.
In the meantime, on I go, without fasting, motivated more than ever!4 -
I often think of how words are made, how they relate to other words, sometimes I discover interesting relations and etymologies.
Like the word ASSISTANCE. ASS-IS-T[A|E]N[S|C]E. And sure enough we need it most when we are frustrated and our asses are tense.
Coincidence? Idk. But I'll never see this word the same again.
Neither will you.
Ur welcome5 -
So I think I figured out something that may be a huge game changer in the gaming industry. TES VI has taken more than a decade to even be a thing. We got an announcement a few years ago about TES VI, but really nothing since. At that time they said TES VI would be in production after Starfield release. Another odd thing they said was that the technology needed to create TES VI was not quite ready yet. I am unsure as to when they said this last bit. I think before they mentioned Starfield release. What is this tech?
I think to understand what this tech is you have to go back to the roots of TES. One of their early games was called Daggerfall. I think this was TES II. The next one was TES III Morrowind. Then TES IV Oblivion. Finally TES V Skyrim. What has been happening on each release? The world of Daggerfall was huge, it was also generated content. That was the only way to go to that scale at that time. Then Morrowind came along and was big, but no where near Daggerfall big. Oblivion came along and decent size, but I think it was still smaller than Morrowind. I think similar with Skyrim. The worlds were getting more detailed, but due to shear manpower it became expensive to fill these large worlds.
I think you have probably figured out where I was going with this. What is the missing tech TES series wanted for large worlds? I think AI is the next big step for generating large worlds like this. From generating textures, terrain, models, cities, forests, etc. Obviously there will be procedural gen mixed in with this.
People keep wondering why TES VI is taking so long. I think Bethesda wanted to go big again on its worlds. But at the scale they wanted to do it would take way too much manpower to create all the assets for the game under any kind of budget. TES V has made them a shit ton of money. So maybe they have the wiggle room to do something truly groundbreaking with TES VI.
Anyway, that is my guess. They were waiting for the AI tools to be available to go big on their open worlds.10 -
Okay, maybe I'm unlucky, but I find macOS to be extremely buggy and inconsistent across the board compared to Windows.
The "it just works" slogan hasn't been true in my case.
Like, there's always some dumb issue hindering me.
For example, I can't seem to resize a window by its edge on my second screen in macOS. It just doesn't work.
Of course, Windows isn't perfect, but it works without a hitch in my case.
Finally, the memory swapping issues that lead to lag.
On a typical day, I have two instances of IntelliJ running, Android Studio or XCode, and two Edge + Mozilla, and Docker. 32GB should be able to handle this smoothly. This works fine on my 32GB Windows workstation.
On my 32GB M2 MacBook Pro however, I have to constantly close some programs because of lag.
Not to mention, memory fills up really quickly. I essentially turn on the MacBook and 18 GB are in use. WTF!9 -
AI is more than just a model.
It's also tooling. Tooling can help to interpret data or solve a puzzle like Sudoku or parse a JSON file perfectly. Results of those tooling will be wrapped in AI response. That quality of tooling responses is high because it's made by classical code that works with literal data and outputs literal data. As long the competition of OpenAI doesn't have tooling like that, it won't be the same.
I do assume for now that DeepSeek doesn't have that. I tried it, it answers things well, but for bigger questions that would require tooling it just crashes and says it's too busy. So I can't verify 100%.
Will try again later and update under this Rant, but assume the DeepSeek stuff is very over hyped. To know what DeepSeek really is about without watching all the fake fan video's, take this quite objective response of the maker of Perplexity AI. Someone that knows where he's talking about: (40 minutes) https://youtube.com/watch/....
So when it comes to investments of a model, what does the stuff investment is incuded in? I mean, OpenAI was way more expensive than DeepSeek but DeepSeek borrowed all OpenAI's research that was made by very expensive processes. So DeepSeek didn't pay research costs like OpenAI did. Also it (I still assume) didn't spend money on tooling.
Also, i'm sure a less woke API would be way cheaper because it doesn't have to lie to himself causing it to keep reasoning until his given woke fact makes sense! Wokism destroys models, i'm sure.
I didn't check DeepSeek on wokism yet, but it's based op GPT4o so, probably it is.
But competition is always great, I can't imagine the price would even drop further for AI requests but if it does, it would be amazing. Maybe it also becomes free and we will be forced to pay to use it without adverts.7 -
Turns out, even spam in dR has its benefits :)
retoor's bot was asleep I guess, so I noticed a spanish spam post about taxi 24 horas [taxi with 24 whores]. And it was quite a good test for my spanish! Turns out, with Duolingo in one year one can learn to understand a language quite well. I only didn't know a few words in the spam post, but the rest I read as if it were english.
Daaayyuummm.. I was too sceptic about Dulingo :o6 -
The sheer rage I feel after sending an 'urgent' email to a client, following up five times with no reply, and finally getting a reply a week later: 'Thanks for your patience!'... I wasn't being patient, I was suffering.1
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Say what you want about spaghetti code written by either you yourself or other people, dealing with it is a massive requirement for becoming a dev.2
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I've spent like 2 days on this semi-toy project, for which I would have been paid generously had I chosen to work for a client instead. This pleasure cost me hundreds of €s not earned. But it feels ssooooo good to code smth just for pleasure.
Totally worth it!20 -
apparently the ability to want to try something new is creativity...
the what. that bar seems too low?3